Rick Lowe
When you listen to the diatribe from some quarters you would swear that the Prime Minister of the country is a demon.
Mind you these folks seldom discuss policy, it's always personal insults, but if they do they'd add steroids to the bad policies of the FNM.
One former Cabinet Minister for example told me the FNM wasted taxpayer money building a $15 million market for the straw vendors on that prime property, protesting he would have built a five story building. Now there's some great logic. As I said bad FNM policies on steroids.
He then lamented the bad educational system. Mind you the results are terrible, but I reminded him how when he sat around the Cabinet table, he and his colleagues used to scoff at The Nassau Institute when we pointed things like this out.
There is a simple explanation to all the problems we face in our country: Unintended consequences. That's right, bad policy run amok.
The Opposition forces should move away from the politics of hate and envy and discuss policy issues and how they would improve education, reduce government spending and reduce the size and scope of government etc.
After all, these are the things that mitigate against economic and social improvement, but I'm sure we'll continue to hear personal insults ad nauseam with promises that they'll spend more tax dollars and make government even larger to get better results.
History denies this but truth doesn't sound good on the campaign trail. The politics of hate and envy are more fun…for the moment. Future generations be damned.
And the irony in the whole mess is the former Cabinet Minister, like others since him and the entire Opposition, voted in favour of all the bad policies in the first place. And as the one gentleman confirmed last Saturday, he wants to add his policy on steroids to the mix.
